"The impounded waters of the DMAD, full and overflowing, poured through the breach to flood the river bottom meadows, the river pastures, the flumes, on toward the Gunnison Bend Reservoir, on toward Oasis and Deseret and finally, the west Desert";

Photo taken June 23, 1983. The 34-foot-high earthen dam at DMAD broke at 1 p.m. seconds after the spillway's buttress collapsed causing a crack in the dam. This photo shows the water pouring at its peak;